| Thursday, 3 August 2006: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | |||
| Empire (Omni Shoreham Hotel) | |||
| Symposium 14: Ants communities and biodiversity: Global Assessments and Monitoring | |||
| Ants are among the most prevalent animals in the world--- understanding their distribution and abundance ought to be a crucial element for a sustainable management of planet Earth. In this workshop we will review and address basic questions on how to sample and measure ant diversity, how to analyze ant diversity over space and time, and what it would take to make such studies integral parts of conservation. | |||
| Organizer: | Donat Agosti | ||
| 10:00 AM | 134 | Ants: Global Assessments and Monitoring. An introduction to the workshop Donat Agosti | |
| 10:20 AM | 135 | The use of DNA biocoding for effective biodiversity assessment of ants in Madagascar Brian L. Fisher, M. Alex Smith | |
| 10:40 AM | 136 | Avatars of rarity: a proposal to increase the spatial scale of leaf litter ant sampling John T. Longino | |
| 11:00 AM | 137 | Impacts of randomized sample site selection on ant survey data and richness estimators Daniel S. Kjar | |
| 11:20 AM | 138 | The ANeT network in Asia, capacity building and its fruits Yoshiaki HASHIMOTO, Seiki Yamane | |
| 11:40 AM | 139 | Ants and their role in international environmental projects Maurice Leponce, Jacques H.C. Delabie, Jérôme Orivel, Bruno Corbara, Yves Roisin, Thibaut Delsinne, Alain Dejean | |
| Sponsor: | Invited Symposia Presentations | ||
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